Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-12
HATS AND eONNETS.
Gorgeous Beaded and Straw Head-Gear
for Spring and Summer.


In order to know what the forthcom-
ing fashions are likely to be it is neces-
sary to visit the wholesale houses. for
the retail ones have as yet scarcely rot
over their winter sales. There are
many women who already are begin
ming to arrange what they shall buy
for spring and summer wear. and it is
recognized fact that well chosen az
ticles of dress last twice as long as those
bought in a hurry.
In the first place YOU can scarcely do
wrong in selecting n beaded bonnet.
The choice is large. They are to be
had in every conceivable color, and in
many varieties, and there are so many
novel features in the new productions
that last years goods are out of fashion.
The most costly kind of beaded bonnet
is worked with an admixturc of tambour
in silk on transparent net foundations;
hut while they look light they are so
we'll covered with the work that the
hair is not seen through. Small seed
pearls are used. with jet and glass
beads, which are bright and glistening.
and accord perfectly in color. Some of
the prettiest are combinations of caldi-
nal and coral, primrose and steel. and
two shades of heliotropc. The brims
are mostly covered with velvet and
edged with beads, sometimes sown over
like rope, and plenty of feathers and
bows seem admissible on the front.
Other bonnets are beaded on wire,
and they show infinite variety in the
shape Of brim and crown. They have
the appearance of n fine bead network,
with tassels of beads hanging from each
intersection; the brims are wired, and
have often vandyked edges, and II va
riety which impresses itself on the eve
and mind is bent into longitudinal
ridges from crown to brim. Corrugated
pearls in many colorngs are novelty
which will be worn to races and cav
gatherings in the summer, and these
larger beads are placed at the angles
formed by network of smaller make.
Straws are to be greatly worn in fine
Dunstables and a long range of fancy
materials. The plaits in the plain kinds
are finer than in previous Years, and
they are to he had i'm almost every
color.
Now as to shape. The new bonnets
are longer and higher from the brim
to the crown, and these crowns are
both quaint and curious. many of them
of the nature of the horseshoe, but
quite different. They rejoice in the
specific name of "church door or FLAT
IRON" by which it is seen that they
describe Il pointed arch. Some of them
are cloven down the center as though
struck with Il Ratchet, while some are
so scooped AT the top that, looking to-
ward the front the crown stands upin
two points above the brim in height;
others again are divided into four quar-
tiers by n straw ridge, the plaits each
going diverse ways. The sugar bag
crown has II square straight ridge AT
the top. Straws are often covered with
bead tassels, and many of the brims
are bordered with beads, but, as rule.
they are eleven in the center. and the
Olivia is the dominant idea, the point
turning upward in coniradistinction to
the Marie Stuart, where the point turns
down.
The fancy straws are not to be had
in varied materials and forms of plat
ing, but in mixed coloring brown and
the Ii ght natural tones. rcd and white.
| blue and red, and many others. Ma
| nslla is mixed with fine silk cord in the
same plat. Hemp and bast mixed
! with the same material. the glossy pol
| islied surface of the one enhancing the
duh tone of the other. Bast is fabric
of light string tone and dull. Chips,
plain and beaded, will be much the
| fashion as the season advances, but let
seems to head the market, and the
variety in which it is introduced is end
less.
Judging. however. from what we
| have seen there is no doubt that how
ever gay this exceptional year is likely
to be, every provision has been made
for meeting the wants of customers
| n. !. Hcr0ld.